I Am Good At What I Do

Another reason women choose to work instead of being home to raise their children is that they are good at what they do. Maybe they are working in an important field or the ultimate, they are serving God in some ministry capacity.

While there is no denying that women can be very good at their jobs and that they often serve in areas that have a high demand such as nursing. Those who are good at their careers receive promotions and pay raises. However, there is very little encouragement to the mother who is home raising their children. An occasional compliment such as “Your children are so good” is about all a mom may get here on earth.

So why should a mom who is working in a career that she is good at, that is serving others and is receiving regular encouragement be home with her children instead?

There will be praise for a woman that has devoted her life to her family from the Lord, even if not from her children and husband.

Proverbs 31:29 “Many women have done excellently, but you surpass them all.” ESV

Women working outside of the home have a hard time being obedient to the Lord’s commands. It is hard to train and teach other young women when they are stretched so thin with working outside the home themselves.

Titus 2:3-5

3 Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good,
4 and so train the young women to love their husbands and children,
5 to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled. ESV

We are called to build our house and not to climb the corporate ladder.

Proverbs 14:1 The wisest of women builds her house, but folly with her own hands tears it down. ESV

1 Corinthians 10:31 … whatever you do, do all to the glory of God. ESV

Colossians 1:10 … walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God. ESV

Colossians 3:23-24

23 Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men,
24 knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ. ESV

This should sum up the life of a woman when she is over sixty.

1 Timothy 5:9-10

9 Let a widow be enrolled if she is not less than sixty years of age, having been the wife of one husband,
10 and havinga reputation for good works: if she has brought up children, has shown hospitality, has washed the feet of the saints, has cared for the afflicted, and has devoted herself to every good work. ESV

First Things First

The most important fact necessary before reading this website is to examine yourself to see if you are a Christian. If you are not a Christian, much of this would be ‘Foolishness’ to you.
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1 Cor 2:14 The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.
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If you are not a Christian then I recommend reading the following:

What is a Berean?

Acts 17:11
"Now the Bereans were of more noble character than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if what Paul said was true." NIV

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